An artist collective or art group or artist group is an initiative that is the result of a group of artists working together, usually under their own management , towards shared aims. The aims of an artist collective can include almost anything that is relevant to the needs of the artist ; this can range from purchasing bulk materials , sharing equipment, space or materials, to following shared ideologies , aesthetic and political views or even living and working together as an extended family . Sharing of ownership, risk, benefits, and status is implied, as opposed to other, more common business structures with an explicit hierarchy of ownership such as an association or a company .
19-935: Paper Rad was an art collective from approx. 2000 until 2008, based on the East Coast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island in the United States. Known for creating comics, zines , video art , net art , MIDI files , paintings, installations, and music with a distinct "lo-fi" aesthetic often associated with underground culture or 1990s "retro tech", juxtaposed images and featuring bright colors. The three primary members were Jacob Ciocci , Jessica Ciocci , and Ben Jones , but additionally included many others such as Paul Bright, David Wightman, Sonja Radovancevic, Extreme Animals, and others. Prior to Paper Rad, Ben Jones and Christopher Forgues (C.F.) were students at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and created
38-564: A DVD in 2006 on Load Records ( Trash Talking ). Paper Rad's video works are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix . Paper Rad calls its style "Dogman 99", a play on the Danish filmmaking movement Dogme 95 . According to one of its project websites, the rules of Dogman 99 are: "No Wacom tablet, no scanning, pure RGB colors only, only fake tweening, and as many alpha tricks as possible". Paper Rad's visual projects often employ bright fluorescent palettes juxtaposed with primary colors to create
57-468: A collective space, for exhibiting or as workshop or studio facilities. Some newer, more experimental kinds of groups include intentional networks, anonymous, connector, hidden or nested groups, and groups with unconventional time-scales. Artist collectives may be formed: Standing in the Way of Control (song) " Standing in the Way of Control " is the debut single by American indie rock band Gossip from
76-410: A distinctive "lo fi" look. It adopts a variety of techniques and elements to achieve this look, including pop art , collage , punk art , as well as imagery from popular culture. The multimedia projects incorporate MIDI audio , poor recordings of original sound effects and voices, pixelization, and other crude audio and visual components. Paper Rad recycled or appropriated obscure sounds and images from
95-499: A hacked Nintendo Entertainment System video-game cartridge where the backgrounds and scenarios were altered and rearranged into a narrative story about the game world becoming corrupted and Mario's existential crises about being a video game character. The movie debuted at Deitch Projects in New York in 2005. Wyld File consisted of the duo Ben Jones and Jacob Ciocci , in collaboration with Eric Mast (better known as E*ROCK). Wyld File
114-487: A new entry rather than as a climber. On the UK Indie Chart , it reached the top spot for one week. The Soulwax Nite Versions remix of the song featured heavily in the advertising campaign for the 2007 E4 television drama, Skins . This version is also on the series' soundtrack album. Kim Gordon , bassist of Sonic Youth , contributed the cover art for the single. Brace Paine asked her to contribute her handwriting to
133-409: A variety of sources, including old cartoons, commercials, and late-night television. In the early 2000s Paper Rad's website featured early GIF art as well as a maze of linked images in the "Dogman 99" style. Paper Rad collaborated with multi-media artist Cory Arcangel to make Super Mario Bros. Movie , a 15-minute video piece about the life and times of Nintendo 's Mario . The piece consisted of
152-606: A zine project called "Paper Radio". Jacob and his sister Jessica became active in Paper Rad after moving to Boston and hanging out with Joe Grillo, Ben Jones, and Christopher Forgues. All of them were interested in zine making, experimental art and music, and computers, which opened up the possibility of multimedia work. The first Paper Rad animation video was made in Boston on VHS tape. The early collaborators for Paper Rad included Andrew Warren, Joe Grillo, Laura Grant, and Billy Grant (and later
171-449: Is a commercial entity that makes lo-fi music videos for artists like Islands , The Gossip (" Standing in the Way of Control "), and Beck ("Gameboy Homeboy"). Art collective Many artist collectives had and still have a major and significant influence on the various epochs of art history . In a broader sense, literary groups and group formations of musicians can also be referred to as artist collectives or groups. The aim of
190-706: Is the artist duo – the smallest, but also the most symbiotic form. Often there are real-life partnerships (as with Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely , or also with Gilbert & George ). It is not uncommon for larger groups of artists to emerge from the "nucleus" of a duo, such as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , for example, developed from the founding duo John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt . Designations such as " The Tachists " or Junge Wilde (The Young Wild Ones) cannot be assigned to any real groups of artists; they merely indicate common stylistic features within an epoch. A clear indication of
209-469: The album of the same name . The remix by Le Tigre was released in 2005, the original was then released as a single in 2006, and was re-released again on February 26, 2007. The 2006 issue had climbed up to number 13 on the UK Singles Chart in early 2007 on download sales, but the 2007 re-release was under a new catalogue number, meaning that their six-place climb to number seven on March 4 was listed as
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#1733093817674228-533: The 2000s". The song was written by lead singer Beth Ditto as a response to the Federal Marriage Amendment which would have constitutionally outlawed same-sex marriage in the United States. She says of the song: Nobody in the States was that surprised or shocked by what Bush did, but it made everyone I know feel helpless and cheated. I wrote the chorus to try and encourage people not to give up. It’s
247-475: The Grant siblings with Joe Grillo formed the art collective, Dearraindrop ). Paper Rad exhibited works at several major galleries including PaceWildenstein , The New Museum of Contemporary Art , and Deitch Projects . Paper Rad's work (featuring Ben Jones) is included in the permanent museum collection at Princeton University Art Museum . The collective published a book in late-2005, Paper Rad, BJ and da Dogs and
266-630: The actual existence of such a group is a written memorandum such as that published in André Breton 's Surrealist Manifesto in Paris in 1924 and signed by several like-minded artists. As a result, the members of such a group committed themselves to subordinate themselves to a common goal. This also included the group exhibitions, to which everyone should contribute their part instead of just showing themselves. Artist collectives have occurred throughout history, often gathered around central resources, for instance
285-464: The album as he had appreciated her "punk rock font" he once saw on an old UT flier. In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Standing in the Way of Control" at number 23 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever". In October 2011, NME placed it at number 34 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". In 2009, Pitchfork placed the song at number 429 on its list "Top 500 Greatest Tracks of
304-648: The ancient sculpture workshops at the marble quarries on Milos in Greece and Carrara in Italy. During the French Revolution the Louvre in Paris was occupied as an artist collective. More traditional artist collectives tend to be smallish groups of two to eight artists who produce work, either collaboratively or as individuals toward exhibiting together in gallery shows or public spaces. Often an artist collective will maintain
323-458: The artistic initiatives was and still is to get in touch with other artists, to point out avant-garde or newly defined efforts in art in the broadest sense, to break away from traditional, academic approaches altogether, to break new ground and to follow them for example by organizing joint exhibitions. The boundaries between all areas of fine and applied art are fluid. In contrast to the mostly programmatically oriented artist collectives, only
342-399: The costs for the use of common workspaces or artist ateliers are usually shared in studio communities. Due to long-standing friendships, thematic joint exhibitions and the inevitable examination of the work of the other members, however, mixed forms can form that go beyond the pure community of convenience. The transition from artist collective to artist colony is also fluid. One speaks of
361-580: The latter when it comes to large-scale settlements of artists of the same direction. Examples of this are the Nazarene movement in Rome and the Barbizon school . The decisive factor here is the personal decision of the individual to align their place of residence with that of like-minded artists, which can be conducive to the optimal further development of the respective art movement. The opposite extreme of an artist group
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